troops vs tanks/turrets/jets - Earth Empires Forum

freedy19

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Mar 23rd 2014, 22:34:38

which military unit boosts your networth the most?

right now in my private market I can buy:

Troops for 115
Jets for 153
Turrets for 167
Tanks for 469

Which one of those units is most worth spending my money on? which will help my networth the most?

blid

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Mar 23rd 2014, 22:35:27

Buy troops first, tanks second, jets third, turrets last resort

Troops worth 0.5 nw, Jets/Turrets worth 0.6 nw, Tanks worth 2 nw

Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:

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freedy19

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Mar 23rd 2014, 22:41:50

great thanks!

RaTS FYA

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Mar 23rd 2014, 22:42:41

If your going off private its almost always that order, if your trying to figure it out on your own, you can take and divide prices of the military by their worth.

Troops / 5
Jets / 6
Turrets /6
Tanks / 20

Whichever is the cheapest buy it, when destocking.

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freedy19

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Mar 23rd 2014, 22:47:07

perfect. thanks rats

freedy19

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Mar 24th 2014, 2:00:10

outta curiosity how much is a spy worth in your networth compared to the other units?

Netsquash

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Mar 24th 2014, 2:02:51

Originally posted by freedy19:

outta curiosity how much is a spy worth in your networth compared to the other units?

cant remember but its way far less then the others and they cost an arm and a leg to maintain... they are meant to only be a defensive unit from spy attacks and to get spy ops done

If i guess... prob 1/2 the worth of a turret based on my indy NW gains this set

tellarion

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Mar 24th 2014, 4:02:01

Spies are 2. So is tech

humicroav

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Mar 24th 2014, 14:12:10

Using Troops as the base multiplier (1), Jets and Turrets are worth 1.2 and tanks are 4.

Originally posted by tellarion:

Spies are 2. So is tech

The wiki suggests that Tech is double the NW of Spies or equal to Tanks. You're a GM so I assume you're right, or is this a typo.

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tellarion

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Mar 24th 2014, 15:32:50

I could very easily be wrong. I always thought spies were 2 though :) In any case, according to the wiki, what I said is correct(if you use troops=1 and not troops=.5) Hah!

blid

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Mar 24th 2014, 15:45:13

But spies are worth 1 nw.

Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:

Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.

tellarion

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Mar 24th 2014, 17:02:39

Spies are worth twice what troops are worth! So if you base troops as 1, then Spies are worth 2!

I am always right :D

blid

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Mar 24th 2014, 17:11:16

Same

Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:

Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.

TDA101

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Mar 24th 2014, 18:48:10

I sell my spies when I'm greedy sometimes to drop expenses and rebuy stuff later with the cash saved/generated.

Need to have tons of turns though.

blid

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Mar 24th 2014, 18:57:05

Yeah some people have taken that to extremes in Primary before
http://www.earthempires.com/primary/23/ranks/144

I've sold down for years, but not, like, all the way down
http://www.earthempires.com/primary/15/ranks/199

Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:

Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.

humicroav

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Mar 25th 2014, 4:32:37

Originally posted by tellarion:

Spies are worth twice what troops are worth! So if you base troops as 1, then Spies are worth 2!

I am always right :D

I wasn't questioning that part. I was questioning Tech being worth 2. I thought they were worth 4.

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RaTS FYA

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Mar 25th 2014, 13:03:45

They are only worth 4 troops, tech is only worth 2 networth.

Azz Kikr

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Mar 25th 2014, 13:40:39

http://wiki.earthempires.com/index.php/Game_Formulas

there's a networth formula there.

mrford

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Mar 25th 2014, 17:31:51

why are people changing the values, is it to make the math easier?

absolute NW values are as follows:

troops - 0.5
jets - 0.6
turrets - 0.6
tanks - 2
spies - 1
tech - 2
land - 45
building - 35
dollar - 0.00005
bushel - 0.001
missile - 2500
civilian - 0.166666.... (1/6th)
oil - 0.01

the rest of the math is up to you

Edited By: mrford on Mar 25th 2014, 17:33:51

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